to cringe at wanky book club questions at the end of novels?

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It feels like a combination of being patted on the head and congratulated for sharing your reading tastes with Oprah Winfrey, and a kind of sub-GCSE comprehension test.

Does anyone else feel even vaguely annoyed by this trend in popular semi-literary fiction?

If you've read Patrick Gale the book club questions at the back are sometimes interesting, possibly because it's set out after an interview with him.

Otherwise I'd agree that most of the time the questions are "did you get the point, well did you see that one coming?"

It doesn't really bother me. I'd love to be in a book club.

I plowed through one Jodi whats it book, never again. Why is she so popular?
I hate the book club questions too. Waste of time.

I ignore these questions but must admit that they have totally put me off joining a book club because they give the impression that book club meetings are full of people discussing equally wanky Eng.Lit. type questions. I would be delighted to be told that that isn't the case.

icimoi, my Book Group has never once discussed a book. We mainly drink gin. Then drunkenly and very earnestly agree to discuss a book properly next time. And then we meet and drink gin. And repeat.

I have never assumed they were written by the author but I don't think it really makes any difference to how squirmy they make me feel.

Sounds like my kind of literary discussion weasel.